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Tijuana's Airport Transforms Itself

The Tijuana International Airport, as well as the Guadalajara airport, is one that will receive more resources because it is one of the airports with highest passenger traffic.

Por Business Conexion2015-11-27T22:00:00+00:00

The Master Development Plan for the next fifteen years of the Pacific Airport Group, SAB de CB (GAP), which will take place between 2015 and 2019, contemplates an investment of more than $5 million pesos (about $312,000 dollars) in the twelve airports managed by the GAP. The Tijuana International Airport, as well as the Guadalajara airport, is one that will receive more resources because it is one of the airports with highest passenger traffic.

GAP will invest more than $2 million pesos (about $125,000 dollars) in the Tijuana International Airport during the 2015-2019 period; practically double what has been budgeted during the past fifteen years (2000-2014), which was 1.099 million pesos (about $68,000 dollars).

To share the investment's details, Guillermo Villalba, General Director of the Tijuana International Airport, presented the business and industrial community his 2015-2019 Master Development Plan.

This plan has projected a cheap hotel and corporate offices. It is hoped that this area be not only and entry and exit, but a business service center for the city's business and industrial community.

Guillermo Villalba, General Director of the International Airport of Tijuana

In addition for the fifteen years between 2015 and 2019, the improvement of the interior and exterior roads, the runway rehabilitation, the enhancement of the commercial platform and the terminal, among other works are being contemplated. For the first fifteen years, GAP will invest close to 900 million pesos in the area (about 56 million dollars). To do this, the Director indicated that GAP will be obligated to comply with what is stipulated in the plan in terms of investment amount and time.

It must be emphasized that the Tijuana International Airport has converted itself into the second most domestically connected airport in the country, after Mexico City; as a result of being a border city. Currently it has 31 Mexican destinations and two international ones, with a flow of 4.5 million passengers a year.

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